Aug 18 WHO: Libya Facing Medical Supply Crisis By Talea Miller Doctors treat a baby in Misrata, Libya. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. The World Health Organization is rushing to secure medical supplies for Libya now that millions in Gadhafi's government assets can be used for urgent health needs. The Dutch… Continue reading
Aug 17 Delivery of Global AIDS Funding Drops 10 Percent HIV testing in Haiti. Photo by UNICEF. There's been a slowdown in HIV/AIDS donations from rich countries to developing nations, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS. An analysis released this week found… Continue reading
Aug 16 Thwarting Polio in the Land of Bricks and Bangles An army of vaccination teams working in high-risk areas of India are helping fight the crippling polio virus. Continue reading
Aug 15 Donations for East Africa Famine Victims Falling Short By Talea Miller A malnourished refugee child in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now. But the famine hitting the Horn… Continue reading
Aug 12 Global Health Week in Tweets By Talea Miller Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify… Continue reading
Aug 12 In Senegal, a Movement to Reject Female Circumcision By Fred de Sam Lazaro Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. This segment originally aired on PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The practice of "female circumcision" is… Continue reading
Aug 09 Global Rise in C-Sections Troubles Experts By Talea Miller C-section rates are skyrocketing in some of the world's poorest countries for reasons that may have little to do with the health of the mother or the child. Continue reading
Aug 08 Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes? By Talea Miller Photo by Flickr user Allan Foster. Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater into… Continue reading
Aug 05 Global Health Week in Tweets Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify… Continue reading
Aug 04 Reporter’s Notebook: India’s New Baby Boom By Fred de Sam Lazaro Indian surrogate mothers. Photo by Fred de Sam Lazaro Thursday on the NewsHour, you'll see an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple and their Indian surrogate. It's part of… Continue reading